A Farewell to Arms

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Review

Hemingway believed that there was no need to "dress up" a story with fancy or eloquent language because a story should be able to stand on its own without all that.

I appreciate his idea that real life is already very literary and telling a story straight up, as it is, very objectively is a way of highlighting this.

So I read a couple of these and tried really hard to like them because Hemingway is famous and stuff. This one is largely inspired by his own experiences as an ambulance driver.

I... don't like Hemingway? The writing doesn't make me feel anything. His characters do a lot of the same stuff Hemingway did. Mostly, they drink alcohol.

If someone can change my mind on this guy genuinely I am open to hearing you out and having my view changed maybe I just don't get it

A Farewell to Arms was also the name of a Gungeon update that added the Gunslinger and the Sprun (um, fun fact?)